From: Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
Date: 2005-08-21T12:23:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby!

Jamey Cribbs wrote:

> I think I mentioned Python's lambda a paragraph or two above the one 
> you quoted (I don't have my original post in front of me so I can't 
> say for sure).  You can definitely do closures with Python's lambda, 
> but it is not as powerful as Ruby's block because a Python lambda can 
> only have one statement in it and it cannot be an assignment.  You 
> might think that this is not that important.  Well, being able to do 
> assignment(s) in a block allows me to program KirbyBase to handle this:

Oops!  I should have said, "because a Python lambda can only have an 
expression, not a statement...".  Here's a quote from the Python 
Tutorial: "They are syntactically restricted to a single expression".  
And here's a quote from Python's Language Reference: "Note that 
functions created with lambda forms cannot contain statements".

Jamey